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Skybox F5 No Signal Issue
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<blockquote data-quote="hairybadger" data-source="post: 863555" data-attributes="member: 389459"><p>Some years ago I was working at a university in London. I was trying to connect an old Sun box (SparcStation 2, maybe) to the network. The lights were coming on on the network card but I couldn't connect. Eventually I ran a packet sniffer and noticed that I couldn't see any activity at all. Finally (after a few hours of fiddling about) I realised that the cable I was using had an RJ11 connector at one end and an RJ45 at the other. The pins were making enough of a contact to turn on the lights, but not enough to pass any traffic at all. Had the lights not been on I would have assumed a bad cable much sooner <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hairybadger, post: 863555, member: 389459"] Some years ago I was working at a university in London. I was trying to connect an old Sun box (SparcStation 2, maybe) to the network. The lights were coming on on the network card but I couldn't connect. Eventually I ran a packet sniffer and noticed that I couldn't see any activity at all. Finally (after a few hours of fiddling about) I realised that the cable I was using had an RJ11 connector at one end and an RJ45 at the other. The pins were making enough of a contact to turn on the lights, but not enough to pass any traffic at all. Had the lights not been on I would have assumed a bad cable much sooner :) [/QUOTE]
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